The Health Benefits of Lady’s Bedstraw Tea

Lady’s Bedstraw (Galium verum) is a plant found practically throughout Europe and Western Asia. Its small yellow flowers smell of honey in sunny weather. It blooms from May to September.

Lady’s Bedstraw contains asperuloside, organic acids (citric, gallic and ascorbic), saponins, alkaloids, a lot of silica, essential oil, mineral salts (iodine, potassium), coumarins, bitters, anthracene derivatives, flavonoids, carotenoids, glycosides.

Lady’s Bedstraw supports the treatment of urinary tract inflammation. It has a diuretic effect, which regulates the body's water management, contributing to the elimination of swelling and cellulite resulting from excessive accumulation of fluids in the body.

The most famous use of this Lady’s Bedstraw herb is to help with diseases of the circulatory and lymphatic systems. Lady’s Bedstraw cleanses the blood and the lymphatic system, but above all it improves blood circulation, thus preventing dangerous thrombosis. Additionally, the herb supports the treatment of varicose veins, prostate, hemorrhoids, and atherosclerosis. This is undoubtedly a gift for lymph and blood.

Lady’s Bedstraw can also be used externally. It helps in cases of difficult-to-heal wounds, cuts and eczema. It also helps in the fight against dandruff. Lady’s Bedstraw herb effectively regenerates the body. It has antispasmodic and antiseptic properties and reduces excessive sweating. Moreover, it can be used as an aid in the treatment of cancer.

Thanks to the content of coumarin, Lady’s Bedstraw has a pleasant hay smell. Coumarin has antispasmodic and anti-swelling properties and also helps with blood circulation problems. That is why it is added to drugs with anticoagulant properties and used for varicose veins, lymphedema and thrombophlebitis.

Lady’s Bedstraw herb should be famous not only for its pleasant scent reminiscent of an idyllic holiday in the countryside, but above all for its extraordinary properties. This is the best gift we can give our veins. It detoxifies blood and lymph, regulates water management and regenerates the body. This herb is worth our attention.